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To: fwdude

re: “True RIGHTS Can Never Depend on the Coerced Cooperation From Others.”

By “rights”, I assume you mean “individual human rights”, such as those expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

My reaction to your thesis title is that, sometimes “others” try to take away one’s individual, God-given, human rights. And, unless one can defend oneself, or one’s civilization that believes in God-given human rights - that individual or civilization is, sooner or later, going to have to defend or “coerce” some “cooperation” from those “others” who do not believe in individual, human rights.

So, I’m not sure that the thesis holds, unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by “coerce cooperation”.

I think a more defensible statement regarding “true rights” might be that “true rights” depend on a moral worldview that believes in such God-given, human rights. Most of world history has been a denial of such rights and they are often only achieved at great sacrifice.


11 posted on 05/21/2015 1:22:55 PM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: rusty schucklefurd

“Rights” should pretty much cover it, and I DID at first consider all the usual modifiers that you mention.

I concluded that they weren’t needed.


17 posted on 05/21/2015 1:32:58 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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